Saturday 12 May 2012

Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry

Born on the 8th of May 1963, is a filmmaker who is involved in with being a commercial director, a music video director & a screenwriter. His inventive visual style & manipulation of mise en scene has earnt him recognition as a promising filmmaker aswell as an Academy Award.

Gondry had creativity pulsing in him veins as he was born into a very creative gene pool. His grandfather was the famous inventor, Constant Martin & his son also carried this on & became an artist. Gondry was originally born in Versailles, France.

He orignally became a music video director debuting by assiting the music videos for the french rock band Oui Oui of which he also participated in by playing the drums. However instead of his musical talents catching the publics eye, his video directing caught the attention of Bjork & asked him to direct her vidseo for the song Human Behaviour. Many artists have enjoyed collaborating with him on videos for bands such as Daft Punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, The Vines, Steriogram, Radiohead & Beck. He also inveted the technique "bullet time" which was famously applied to the Matrix films later on.

Spike Jonze & David Fincher have also worked with Gondry



References

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Gondry
www.imdb.com/name/nm0327273
[All electronically accessed & submitted]

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